Global Spread of Pharmaceutical Patent Protection: Micro Evidence from the International Equivalents of Drug

Okada, Yoshimi : Sadao Nagaoka
『Patents in Japan, Millennial Asia』 Vol.8 No.1 pp. 26-47 （2017/04/11）

The Impact of Import vs. Export Competition in Technology Flows between Countries

Kaoru, Nabeshima : Mila Kashcheeva : Byeongwoo Kang
No. 654 IDE Discussion Papers （2017/04/01）

Many countries are interested in strengthening their technological capabilities to achieve high growth rates. Knowledge flow is a key to build technological capabilities…

The Impact of the Opening of High-Speed Rail on Innovation

Inoue, Hiroyasu : Kentaro Nakajima : Yukiko Saito
17-E-034 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2017/03/31）

Environmental Externalities and Weak Appropriability: Influences on Firm Pollution Reduction Technology Development,

Malen, Joel: Alfred A. Marcus
『Business & Society』 （2017/03/31）

Technological development plays a critical role in society’s ability to address environmental issues. Building on Teece’s profiting from innovation framework, we articul…

Networks for What?

Nishiguchi, Toshihiro
『Hitotsubashi Business Review』 Vol. 64 No. 4 pp. 56-67 (in Japanese) （2017/03/23）

Innovation for a circular economy

Malen, Joel
『Hitotsubashi Business Review』 Vol.64 No.4 8-18 （2017/03/23）

in Japanese (循環型経済のためのイノベーション)

An Introduction to Community Capital: The Functions of Imprinting, Commensurate Trust and Quasi-ties

Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Motoko Tsujita
『Soshiki Kagaku (Organizational Science)』 Vol.50 No.3 pp. 4-15 (in Japanese) （2017/03/20）

Industry Growth through Spinoffs and Startups

Ohyama, Atsushi
17-E-057 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2017/03/01）

Promoting clean energy technology entrepreneurship: The role of external context

Malen, Joel
『Energy Policy』 Vol. 102 pp. 7-15 （2017/03/01）

This study examines how political, social and economic factors influence clean energy technology entrepreneurship (CETE). Government policies supporting clean energy technology development and the development of markets for clean energy create opportunities for CETE. However, the extent to which such opportunities lead to the emergence…

Mobility of Highly Skilled Retirees from Japan to the Republic of Korea and Taiwan

Kang, Byeongwoo : Yukihito Sato : Yasushi Ueki
ERIA Discussion Paper 2016-31 Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia （2017/02/28）

Attracting highly skilled workers is a major element in the economic development of many countries, especially developing ones. However, workers generally move from developing countries to developed ones. Historical evidence indicates that Korean and Taiwanese firms scout for highly skilled (retired or soon-to-retire) Japanese workers …

How a Laid-off Employee Becomes an Entrepreneur: The Case of Nokia’s Bridge Program

Workshop on Innovation in Digital Industries (organized by IIR) （2017/02/24）

Submitted by Kang, Byeongwoo, Heikki Rannikko and Erno T. Tornikoski

Impact of Patent Scope on subsequent Inventions: Findings from a new Measure

Okada, Yoshimi : Yusuke Naito : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#17-03 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2017/02/20）

While patent scope defined by patent claims provides crucial information on the contribution of underlying inventions to the state of the art, its existing measures do n…

Fate of Bad Apples: Organizational Responses to Wrongdoers in the Japanese Audit Industry

International Workshop on Business Research　(Organized by Management Innovation Research Center, Hitotsubashi University) （2017/02/10）

Paper submitted by Karube, Masaru

Environmental regulation and international expansion of MNEs: The moderating role of pollution reduction resources and firm multinationality on location choice

Malen, Joel : Junichi Yamanoi
WP#16-13 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/12/07）

We examine how stronger environmental regulations influence MNE international expansion decisions by attending to two sources of firm heterogeneity that moderate this effect: possession of pollution reduction capabilities and firm multinationality. Empirical tests on 523 cases of international manufacturing expansion into 49 potential …

Did China’s Coal Mine Regulation Positively Affect Economic Growth?

Xu, Hangtian : Kentaro Nakajima
『Resources Policy』 Vol.50 pp. 160-168 （2016/12/01）

In response to high mortality rates and low productivity in coal mining, China began regulating coal mines in the 1990s, reshaping its coal economy. We investigate the relationship between coal mine regulation and economic growth. Using the difference-in-difference approach to compare the pre- and post-regulation periods as well as reg…

Contribution of Patent Examination to Making the Patent Scope Consistent with the Invention: Evidence from Japan

Okada, Yoshimi : Yusuke Naito : Sadao Nagaoka
RIETI Discussion Paper 16-E-092 Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI) （2016/11/29）

Delineating the patent scope consistently with the contribution of the disclosed invention is one of the most crucial requirements for a patent system to promote innovation effectively. Given the incentive of an applicant to set a scope for the patent as broad as possible, an important task of the Patent Office is to narrow it so that …

Landscape of Standard Essential Patents: Case of East Asian Firms

The 7th Asia-Pacific Innovation Conference （2016/11/18）

Conference Paper: submitted by Dang, Jianwei, Byeongwoo Kang and Ke Ding

Multi-region Job Search with Moving Costs

Kawata, Keisuke : Kentaro Nakajima : Yasuhiro Sato
『Regional Science and Urban Economics』 Vol.61 pp. 114-129 （2016/11/01）

We develop a competitive search model involving multiple regions, geographically mobile workers, and moving costs. Equilibrium mobility patterns are analyzed and characterized, and the results indicate that shocks to a particular region, such as a productivity shock, can propagate to other regions through workers' mobility. Moreover, e…

Descriptive analysis of the knowledge network formation in East Asia

Nabeshima, Kaoru : Byeongwoo Kang : Mila Kashcheeva
『Technology in Society』 Vol.47 pp. 66-100 （2016/11/01）

This paper shows descriptively how the knowledge network in East Asia has been formed. In addition, the correlation between the knowledge network and economic growth is also examined. Evidence is provided to show that plugging into the knowledge network of developed economies could be a key for increasing innovativeness in an economy.

Landscape of standard essential patents: The case of East Asian countries

Dang, Jianwei : Byeongwoo Kang : Ke Ding
WP#16-12 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/10/19）

Technical standards in the mobile communications industry have been developed from national to regional and from regional to global. In the current era, global standards…